1967 film clip of CORE associate director Dr. George Wiley and Dick Gregory
Dr. George Wiley, Dick Gregory
This is film footage of CORE associate director Dr. George Wiley as the head of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) with comedian/activist Dick Gregory. The footage is from the 1967 documentary "Welfare Revolt".
National Educational Television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EMxLgvY9Ow
1967
English
film
1967
1967 film clip of CORE associate director Dr. George Wiley
George Wiley
This is film footage of CORE associate director Dr. George Wiley as head of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). The footage is from the 1967 documentary "Welfare Revolt".
National Educational Television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EMxLgvY9Ow
1967
film
English
1967
photo of Syracuse CORE member Wretha Wiley
Wretha Wiley
This is a 1973 photo of Syracuse CORE member Wretha Wiley walking with her children. Wiley was the wife of CORE associate director Dr. George Wiley and the mother of 2020 NYC mayoral candidate Maya Wiley seen in the left side of the photo holding her mother's hand.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/maya-wiley-nyc-mayor-race.html?fbclid=IwAR38vzrf5Ai5ZCLC2eWqR6OX1VvhPJKD_4-piLdRghXc2nPAWV9PUqsEccc
Jet Magazine
1973
Jet Magazine
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1973 New York
photo of CORE associate national director Dr. George Wiley
George Wiley
This is a photo of Dr. George Wiley. A former chemistry professor at the Syracuse University and Cornell graduate, he was one of the founding members of Syracuse CORE. In 1964, he became CORE's associate national director, second only to James Farmer. He unsuccessfully ran against Floyd Mckissick for national director in 1965.
After leaving CORE, he founded the National Welfare Rights Organization. It is widely credited with turning the welfare rights struggle a national movement through use of tactics developed by political scientists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven,
He was also listed on the master list of President Nixon's political opponents, a supplement to supplement the original Nixon's Enemies List.
https://www.georgewileycenter.org/history
https://www.georgewileycenter.org/history
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